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Subject: Re: The latest truth on chess ?

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 12:42:31 07/09/01

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On July 09, 2001 at 13:43:13, Christian Kongsted wrote:

>Kasparov:
>The depth of the computer's calculation gives it certain positions
>understanding. Even as we saw today, machines don't
>>understand many things. But only if it goes beyond the depth of its
>>calculation."
>>
>This comment by Kasparov is very deep, and its not a publicity stunt. Nobody -
>computers or humans - can see the game to the end, and therefore we develop the
>concept of positional understanding. For humans, it is indeed a feeling, and it
>is at least as important as calculating variations. For machines you put things
>on formula so you get plusses for the bishop pair in open positions etc.
>
>I dont believe that a human that only analyses chess as tactics will ever come
>much above 2000 ELO. But I may be wrong here. Whats your ELO, Otello?

My elo is not very high indeed...but I know that Mr. Kasparov is famous because
he can calculate very deeply, and I believe this is one of his strongest weapon
in this difficult discipline.
I've read that one of his "quote" for success in chess is : "calculate,calculate
and calculate".

Regards.





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